Monday 18 August 2008

Start of talks will be procedural

President Christofias said yesterday that his first meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat on 3 September would be of procedural nature and that there would be no substantial discussion of the various issues.

“I understand that there will be a statement on my part, a statement by Mr Talat and one by Mr Downer, and we will await the first productive meeting on 11 September, when we will go to the substance”, he said on his return from the Olympic Games in China.

He added that “during the first meetings we will discuss the issue of governance and from there on Mr Talat and I will schedule our meetings, depending on how the first meetings go".

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